[cheald]

It's a technical measure, not a marketing one. We're going to open up pieces of the product to general use as we smoketest and validate their performance. The join page is more or less there to be served Very Very Fast (and still let people be notified when stuff opens up) more than it is to lock people out of content.

This iteration is a ground-up custom build rather than an iteration on Wordpress, so we're being conservative with our testing. It won't be that way for too long.

[pknight]

Are you guys moving away from WordPress or will the new design be ported over? Anyhow, I actually think it looks fantastic.

[cheald]

We're moving off of Wordpress with this redesign, and don't have any plans to port it at this time.

[tsiokos]

Should we expect a tech stack overview blog post?

[cheald]

Yes! We're going to let it simmer in production a bit before we do a writeup on it, but at some point we'll definitely do a breakdown of what we're doing and why we did it.

It's been a fun build, so we're looking forward to that. :)